Hanszen College
At Rice, a residential college functions as an extended family. Rice undergraduates are randomly assigned to one of 11 residential colleges so that each college represents a cross-section of the university’s diversity.
The oldest portion of Hanszen College, the 1916 wing formerly know as West Hall, now is connected to a 1957 and to Hanszen Commons, which replaced an earlier commons building in 1998.
What’s there: Undergraduate housing, Hanszen College Commons
Named for: Harry C. Hanszen, an independent oil operator and chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees from 1946 to 1950
Built: 1916, Cram & Ferguson; 1957, Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson; 1998, Machado & Silvetti Associates
Rice Campus Map No. 32